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  Union Buster Update

As we all know, the anti-union campaign will intensify as the election date nears. The attempts by your managers to "educate" you about the evils of unions and MNA will become more frequent and impassioned. Understand that rumors and misinformation are at the heart of the union buster campaign.  The hospital has been using the union-busting firm of Jackson and Lewis. The firm is nationally known and their primary function is litigating for employers in cases of employee organizing efforts (union busting). The firm is mentioned in the book, "confessions of a union buster" written by Martin Leavitt a former member of a union busting firm that is also nationally known. The following is an excerpt from this book:

"Union busting is a field populated by bullies and built on deceit. A campaign against a union is an assault on individuals and a war on the truth. As such, it is a war without honor. The only way to bust a union is to lie, distort, manipulate, threaten, and always, always attack. The law does not hamper the process rather it serves to suggest maneuvers and define strategies. Each union prevention campaign, as the wars are called, turns on a combined strategy of misinformation and personal assaults. The union buster's key strategy, when confronted with an election, is to delay the ballot, thereby buying time to organize a so-called counter campaign."

 
         
 

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